Alice Walker

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

• Allan, Tuzyline Jita, Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1995.
• Bestsellers '89, Issue 4, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1989.
• Black Literature Criticism, Volume 1, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
• Christian, Barbara, editor, Everyday Use, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1994.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5, 1976, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 19, 1981, Volume 27, 1984, Volume 46, 1988, Volume 58, 1990, Volume 103, 1998.
• Contemporary Novelists, 7th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 6: American Novelists since World War II, Second Series, 1980, Volume 33: Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955, 1984, Volume 143: American Novelists since World War II, Third Series, 1994.
• Evans, Mari, editor, Black Women Writers, 1950-1980: A Critical Evaluation, Anchor (New York, NY), 1984.
• Johnson, Yvonne, The Voices of African American Women: The Use of Narrative and Authorial Voice in the Works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker, P. Lang (New York, NY), 1995.
• Kaplan, Carla, The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1996.
• Kramer, Barbara, Alice Walker: Author of "The Color Purple," Enslow (Berkeley Heights, NJ), 1995.
• O'Brien, John, Interviews with Black Writers, Liveright (New York, NY), 1973.
• Peden, William, The American Short Story: Continuity and Change, 1940-1975, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1975.
• Prenshaw, Peggy W., editor, Women Writers of the Contemporary South, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1984.
• St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers, 2nd edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
• Short Story Criticism, Volume 5, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1990.
• Walker, Alice, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult; A Meditation of Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the film "The Color Purple," Ten Years Later, Scribner (New York, NY), 1996.

PERIODICALS

• Booklist, October 15, 2003, Vanessa Bush, review of Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, p. 358.
• Black Issues Book Review, March-April, 2003, Kelly Norman Ellis, review of Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems, p. 38; May-July, 2004, Susan McHenry, "The Gifts of the Grandmother Spirit," p. 44.
• Bookseller, April 23, 2004, "Alice Walker," p. 29.
• Chicago Tribune, April 23, 1989, Bernard W. Bell, review of The Temple of My Familiar.
• Detroit Free Press, August 8, 1982, Andrea Ford, review of The Color Purple; July 10, 1988; January 4, 1989.
• Detroit News, September 15, 1982, Charles Larson, review of The Color Purple.
• Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 2003, review of Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, p. 1422.
• Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, February 7, 2001, Ira Hadnot, review of My Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, p. K1172; February 13, 2002, Sue Corbett, review of Langston Hughes: American Poet, p. K4900; March 12, 2003, Jeff Guinn, review of Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, p. K2933.
• Lambda Book Report, December, 1998, Nedhera Landers, review of By the Light of My Father's Smile, p. 30.
• Language Arts, November, 2002, Junko Yokota and Mingshui Cai, review of Langston Hughes, p. 152.
• Library Journal, December, 1998, Nann Blaine Hilyard, review of By the Light of My Father's Smile, p. 172; November 15, 2003, Ellen Flexman, review of Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, p. 100.
• Los Angeles Times, April 29, 1981, article by Art Seidenbaum; April 18, 2003, Renee Tawa, "Alice Walker Ceased Writing, Then Started Anew. Don't Ask, Just Appreciate Wisdom Gained," p. E30.
• Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 29, 1988, Derrick Bell, review of Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987; July 5, 1992, Tina McElroy Ansa, review of Possessing the Secret of Joy, p. 4.
• Ms., June, 1982, Gloria Steinem, "Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You," p. 35.
• Newsweek, June 21, 1982, Peter S. Prescott, review of The Color Purple, p. 676; April 24, 1989, David Gates, review of The Temple of My Familiar, p. 74.
• New York Times Book Review, May 24, 1981, Katha Pollitt, review of You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, p. 9; July 25, 1982, Mel Watkins, review of The Color Purple, p. 7; June 5, 1988, Noel Perrin, review of Living by the Word, p. 42; April 30, 1989, J. M. Coetzee, review ofThe Temple of My Familiar, p. 7; October 4, 1998, Francine Prose, review of By the Light of My Father's Smile, p. 18; December 10, 2000, Linda Barrett Osborne, review of The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, p. 32.
• People, May 3, 2004, Debby Waldman, review of Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, p. 45.
• Publishers Weekly, March 1, 1991, review of Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete, p. 64; October 25, 1991, review of Finding the Green Stone, p. 66; October 25, 1993, review of Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women, p. 49; October 5, 1998, review of By the Light of My Father's Smile, p. 44; September 11, 2000, review of The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, p. 71; November 19, 2001, review of Langston Hughes, pp. 67-68; January 20, 2003, review of Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, p. 77; November 17, 2003, review of Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, p. 38.
• Time, May 1, 1989, Paul Grey, review of The Temple of My Familiar, p. 69.
• Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), August 1, 1982, Jeanne Fox-Alston, review of The Color Purple; July 17, 1988, Judith Paterson, review of Living by the Word; January 21, 1996, Francine Prose, review of The Same River Twice, p. 5.
• Washington Post Book World, July 25, 1982, David Guy, review of The Color Purple; May 29, 1988, Jill Nelson, review of Living by the Word; May 7, 1989, David Nicholson, review of The Temple of My Familiar, p. 3; July 5, 1992, Charles R. Larson, review of Possessing the Secret of Joy, p. 1.
• World Literature Today, spring, 2001, Adele S. News-Horst, review of The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, pp. 335-336.